Archive for the 'Security' Category

Australia’s finally realizing the threats of cyber attacks to the country’s government institutions and business sector, which were attacked dozens of times this year, and now it’s raising concerns about the safety of personal and financial data of users.
A hacker’s website tells about numerous security breaches of government websites. Although it doesn’t say anything about […]

The obvious problem with cyber-crime is that, unlike decent murdering and burglarizing criminals, they are intelligent enough to make a fool of you and your anti-viral software by using insidious methods, which are difficult to recognize. Five of their (albeit outdated) tricks have been reviewed by Erik Larkin of Yahoo.
The first one is the Glieder.H […]

Malware creators no longer distribute viruses that erase your data or corrupt something in your computer.  Now they want to have profit of breaking into your computer in all possible ways. Modern malware steal bank accounts, email accounts, identities, turn computer into spamming machine or use it for further malicious actions.
Botnets are the biggest threat […]

I think all of us know how important it is to have a strong password to secure your accounts. If you choose your password to be your name or the same as your login name, any prankster can guess it just for fun. By the way, the newest registration forms won’t allow your password to […]

People often do not take identity theft as a real crime. However you can do a lot of bad things if you have right information about someone. If you think that you are ordinary human and no one is interested in your credit card number or social insurance information, you are terribly wrong. According to […]

How many of us have computers connected to the Internet through routers? The number of dial-up connections is dramatically decreasing each year. Now most people use cable, DSL and other broadband connections, most of which require a router. Even wireless goes through it.
Today, routers are quite cheap and functional. You can connect your desktop computer, […]

hpHOSTS is a web site of the community managed hosts file, which is used for blocking access to thousands of malicious web sites. This file can be merged with the user’s current hosts file, but can also replace the original. Once installed, hpHOSTS blocks access to more than 46,000 host names. All of these host […]

The last year really was the year of spyware, adware and malware threats. It began as usually, but the end of 2005 left a sharp and intimidating impression. We saw an outbreak of corrupt anti-spyware products, sophisticated, hard to get rid of browser hijackers and trojans. The early beginning of 2005 was quite calm – […]

The registry is one of the most vital components of the Microsoft Windows operating system. In simple phrase, it is a complex database containing virtually all system, software, hardware and user settings. Almost every piece of software keeps its data in the registry. It is so important that Windows would not even start without it.
2-Spyware.com […]

On this Friday, February 3rd, Blackworm, an extremely dangerous and rapidly spreading Internet parasite will delete millions of various documents, databases, images and archives stored on hundreds of thousands of computers around the globe. It is not a joke. Blackworm is real, and over 300,000 machines are already infected with it.
The worm, which is also […]